Campbeltown

Campbeltown is on the Mull of Kintyre, made famous by Paul McCartney and Wings, and I knew the piper who plays the solo on the record, so there!

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

I was born on the 9th of August 1947 in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland.

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

It was the Atlantic, blue and sparkling with white-tipped waves; the water in Campbeltown Loch was dark grey-green and so sheltered as to be almost still.

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

My mother was a secretary, and she had come to Campbeltown from Glasgow, so we went there from time to time to visit her brother and sister.

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

Rothesay was much more sophisticated than Campbeltown; it had the Entertainers, for a start, a sort-of end-of-the-pier show that starred people like Jimmy Logan and Andy Stewart.

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

He was just then on a golfing holiday in Scotland, and his letter to the editor of The Times newspaper, which was published on July 30 (p. 15), gives the following address: “Ugadale Arms Hotel, Machrihanish, Campbeltown, N.B.”

N.B. 2009

Whilst on a golfing holiday at the Ugadale Arms Hotel at Machrihanish, near Campbeltown in Argyllshire, Scotland, on July 30, 1926 (p. 15), for example, J.W. Trumble wrote the following measured, if somewhat leaden critique of the then state of test wickets.

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Machrihanish is five miles from Campbeltown, on the other side of the Kintyre peninsula, and was reached by bus; as a child, I would wait expectantly and then squeal with delight when I saw the sea.

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

He was just then on a golfing holiday in Scotland, and his letter to the editor of The Times newspaper, which was published on July 30 (p. 15), gives the following address: “Ugadale Arms Hotel, Machrihanish, Campbeltown, N.B.”

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Campbeltown had its own delights for small children, but they were of the healthy, outdoor type - burns and hills and crab-infested rock pools, that sort of thing.

Jill McGown, in her own words 2010